Truck runs over 20 bystanders in Brazil crash
Nearly 20 bystanders who gathered to stare at a fatal truck accident were killed when a second lorry ploughed into them at the spot.
A total of at least 25 people were killed and more than 80 injured in the double accident in the Brazilian capital of Brasilia.
The first smash came when one truck tried to overtake another on a bend and hit an oncoming bus. Six people on the bus and the truck driver were killed.
“It was a serious accident but everything was under control,” a police spokesman said.
“All of a sudden for no reason another truck arrived and ran everybody over, firefighters, police, people who stopped at the scene.”
He said it was still unclear why the other truck failed to stop but said it might have lost its brakes.
The second accident killed 18 people, including three firefighters and a policeman, he said.
